MS Issues Critical SQL Server Flaw Warning

silent wire writes "ZDNet is reporting on a pre-patch security advisory from Microsoft warning about an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability affecting its SQL Server line. Exploit code is publicly available so affected users should pay special attention to the workarounds from Microsoft."

So much for time off

[The Yuckinator]

Happy Holidays! Now go patch the server.

Re:So much for time off

[causality]

This means their people are working writing/testing the patch too. I wonder how much nicer it might be for the internet backbones to take a holiday off.

A holiday off? We can't do that, it might interefere with someone making money. This is the USA goddammit, we can't start placing quality time or family members above making money, we've got our priorities!

Re:Exactly what is vulnerable?

[Techmeology]

This will be exploited only in the situation where the DBA is a complete and total moron of the highest degree.

You mean the kind of person who'd use Microsoft software in a security critical situation?

Linux

[IsaacD]

Linux is entirely impenetrable and never requires updates of any sort. Any database application running on Linux is completely, without question, capable of becoming self aware and defending itself from assassins known as Microsoft products. If you have ever even seen a Microsoft "product" in use then you are a complete and total buffoon, you are incapable of breathing on your own, and you do not deserve the oxygen you consume. A wet paper bag is more secure than all of Microsoft's products. Linux is built by titanium-skinned gods that were trained by magical ninja fairies. Computers running a Linux distribution do not require electricity; instead, they run on posts at Slashdot and the love felt by a community that feels that no money should ever be traded for labor or information.

explaining the joke

[Anonymous Coward]

I suggested he stop using Microsoft products.

He did not think it was funny.

There's an old joke: "Doc, it hurts when I do this." (wiggles arm) Doc replies, "Well, don't do that."

It's a joke because the patient has a reasonable expectation that he should be able to wiggle his arm, so the doc's advice doesn't really solve the problem.

If we changed the joke to, "Doc, it hurts when I hit myself in the head with a hammer and then jam a sodium hydroxide-coated piece of barbed wire up my urethra," and the doc replied, "don't do that," then it ceases to be a joke at all. The doc's line is reasonable and expected, rather than a punchline.

No wonder your admin didn't think it's funny. That's because there was no joke.

Next time, tell him, "Keep buying Microsoft products." Then he'll think it's funny.

Takes too much energy

[Anonymous Coward]

dammit i was hopping that would be the workaround for once.

I was hopping for a good long while too, but then my legs got really tired.